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National Adoption Week 2019 – a time for celebration, and reflection
Yvette Stanley, our National Director for Social Care, talks about the importance of adoption, and how we look at it on our inspections.
Yvette Stanley
Yvette Stanley is Ofsted's National Director for Social Care.
Yvette was previously Director for Children, Schools and Families at Merton Council and has 30 years of experience in children's services.
Kinship care: what are the issues?
Yvette Stanley, our National Director for Social Care, reflects on two recent survey reports of kinship carers’ views.
The Care Experienced Conference
In this blog, Yvette Stanley, our National Director for Social Care, talks about this week’s Care Experienced Conference reports.
ILACS implementation review - how are our children's services inspections working?
Yvette Stanley, our National Director for Social Care, discusses our ILACS implementation review.
Improving the role of adult mental health services in multi-agency child protection
Yvette Stanley, our National Director for Social Care, discusses the important role of adult mental health services as part of the multi-agency approach to helping and protecting children.
Effective ‘pre-proceedings’ work – what does inspection tell us?
Yvette Stanley, our National Director for Social Care, talks about why effective social work at the ‘pre-proceedings’ stage (the period before court proceedings begin in applications for care orders) is so important, and what our inspections tell us about it.
What makes an effective case record?
National Director for Social Care, Yvette Stanley, discusses why good case recording is so important.
Unregistered and unregulated provision - what's the difference?
Yvette Stanley, our National Director for Social Care, explains the difference between unregistered and unregulated provision for children.
Financial pressures and the child protection system
Yvette Stanley, Ofsted’s National Director for Social Care, talks about the financial pressures faced by local authorities, and the impact on child protection and wider services for children and families.
Ofsted’s social care point-in-time surveys close on 9 June
Our children's social care point-in-time surveys close on Sunday 9 of June - there's still time to give us your views!